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THE RELIEF-BLOCK PRINTS OF STEPHEN ALCORNAll images hand-printed by the artist on acid-free paper.

The
Artist of the Missing

For The Artist of the
Missing, a critically acclaimed contemporary novel by author Paul
LaFarge, Alcorn created 11 lyrical and mysterious works in which his
trade mark chiaroscuro, intricate patterning, inversion of conventional
perspective, as well as playful defiance of the laws of gravity,
conspire to lead the reader through a visionary novel about love, loss,
imagination, and despair.

Words of Praise

"An amazing first novel, filled with rare insight into the paradoxes of
love. And Stephen Alcorn's engravings are worthy of Lynd Rand"

— Alexander Thoreaux

Stephen Alcorn's bold illustrations add a visual dimension to this
landscape. His highly stylized engravings are at once magnificent and
subtle interpretations of the text. Indirectly, too, they underscore one
of the novel's main themes: the artist's capacity to transform reality.

Book Description

Frank, a young artist, arrives in the city hoping to unravel the mystery
of his parents' disappearance. He begins working as a washer of robes in
a hotel for itinerant judges. There he meets and falls in love with
Prudence, a forensic photographer whose pictures reveal the secrets of
the dead. When Prudence disappears, Frank sets out in search of her, a
quest that leads him into the shadowy world of a revolutionary salon,
then to a prison, and finally to discover the city's strange secrets and
the secrets of his own heart. A haunting novel that recalls the early
work of Paul Auster and Steven Milhauser, The Artist of the Missing is a
stunning debut, both a richly imagined evocation of another world and a
piercing examination of the mystery of love, and beautifully illustrated
by acclaimed artist Stephen Alcorn.

— The Publisher

Order Book — The Artist of the
Missing is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN: 0374525803
256 Pages; May,1999; Paperback

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